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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Jewish organizations are suing the Canadian government over new kosher slaughter rules they warn could destroy the industry
Description: Canada’s main kosher supervision agencies, the Kashruth Council of Canada (COR) and the Jewish Community Council in Montreal, which runs the MK brand, do not believe Canada wants to ban kosher slaughter. But they say new regulations to reduce animal suffering will have the same impact and puts the nation’s entire domestic kosher meat industry “very much at risk”.
COR and MK and two of the country’s largest kosher meat producers—Shefa and Mehadrin—are launching a legal challenge to the country’s new slaughter regulations, which were introduced in 2019 but have only begun being enforced since 2023.
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